Radeon R9 290X and GeForce GTX 680 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce GTX 680
Radeon R9 290X
7648
GeForce GTX 680
5721
Radeon R9 290X
GeForce GTX 680
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
March 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Two 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1058 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1006 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1536
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
3,090.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
195 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
128.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2048 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-